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Thomas Professor of Education Marcelo Suárez-Orozco says Lagemann’s global focus is crucial for affecting change in American public education...
...makes a career behind turntables further than Tsuyoshi. He has achieved near shaman-like success. His band Joujouka's new single Invade, featuring Kyono, the lead singer for the popular metal band The Mad Capsule Markets, is a clubland smash. (The band also scored the PlayStation 2 shooter game, Rez.) With a catalog of over 20 albums and mix CDs, Tsuyoshi, whose return to Tokyo in 2000 triggered a nationwide trance boom, is that peculiar millennial superstar: the bankable DJ. Last month, he even launched his own Tokio Drome clothing line (named after his monthly Tokyo parties...
...human-rights lawyer Digna Ochoa in Mexico City. Ochoa had consented to the withdrawal of police protection because the death threats she had been getting since 1995 had tapered off. A note found with her body threatened former colleagues at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center and read, "If you keep it up, you?ll get yours...
...history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the electoral college to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, even suggested last week that a new election in Florida would be a good idea. Maybe they could send election monitors from Cuba to ensure the fairness of the vote count. It would all be funny if the laughs didn't come so hard...
...wonders, though, what the motivation is for recapturing indigenous identity, and how this motivation might be different without the presence of the gaming industry on the rez. It would be highly disingenous, no doubt, to say that Mashantucket Pequot identity is premised solely upon economic incentive. But at the same time, for many of those who have moved back to the reservation after years away or for those, like Regina Kirchner, who have little direct knowledge of their indigenous heritage, it is hard to posit much in terms of their motivation aside from enlarged economic opportunity...